Jg 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe - Softcover

A look back at the Abbeville Kids, the pilots of the Luftwaffe's Jadgeschwader 26, describes the founding of this famed fighter wing and its performance during World War II. Reprint.

This is the story of the JG 26 pilots, or "Abbeville Kids." A microcosm of World War II exists in the rise and fall of this famous fighter wing--whose slashing attacks always seemed to come from the best position--from its founding during Hitler's military buildup, through its glory days in the first years of the war--when its bases in northen France were to be avoided at all costs--right up to the grim, final hours of the Third Reich.